Bria sneered when she thought of how such a weapon must have been developed: the t*****e dungeons of the Ulltrian homeworld were notorious, where sentient prisoners were disassembled and studied for every weakness, their genetic heritage r***d for every opportunity to harm. In such a place some dozens or hundreds of Sussurats would have died slow, horrible deaths, while this weapon targeting their specific brain systems was developed.
The Ulltrian had played her for a fool and won the exchange.
But another thought struck Bria. Five thousand years before, when such a weapon would have been developed, during the last Ulltrian war, an Alliance AI would not have been clever enough to filter out the message in time. The Ulltrians, she and Tarkos had discovered, had done very little to upg
